I'm looking to make a 'rescue' gzip(1) binary for a CF Bootstrap, however 
/rescue/gzip is staticly linked and thus 2+MB.

Space is limited for binaries in /bin and /lib because of size limitations 
of the in-kernel RD/MD image.

Space is limited on the CF device for usr.tar.gz (which gets extracted 
into an MFS /usr), so /rescue/gzip is out of the question.

Thus my RD/MD root file system lacks a /usr until after the start of 
/etc/rc.

With our in-tree gzip(1) substitute, could the Makefile be modified to 
link against the libc/libz in /lib instead of /usr/lib (which are actually 
symlinks any way?).

It seems pretty simple:

# link gzip/gzip
/nbsd/tools/bin/i386--netbsdelf-gcc -Wl,-nostdlib -o gzip 
-Wl,-rpath-link,/lib:/usr/lib -L/lib -B/usr/lib/ -B/usr/lib/ gzip.o -lz 
-lbz2 -L/usr/lib -L/usr/lib

But it would nice if there was some conditional environmental that could 
be set for this non-standard build behavior.

Also, could a the bzip2 support be killed off easily?  That might not be 
prodent since it doesn't really add that much space (60K?).

Thanks,
~BAS